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Recent Work

The 8th cohort of the Master’s in Education (M.Ed.) program graduated on September 13, 2018 from Shaheed Rabbani Education University (SREU) in Kabul. This cohort of 24 students consisted of four women and 20 men, all of whom are faculty members at Afghan public universities.

In fall of 2017, three new Associate Degree programs were initiated. The new associate degrees in Business Administration and Business Accounting are located at the universities in Balkh, Herat, and Nangarhar provinces. A total of 93 students (23 females) are now enrolled in these three programs. A total of 21 instructors have been identified and prepared to teach in these programs.

The USAID Education in Crisis and Conflict Network (USAID ECCN) is a community of practice composed of USAID education staff, implementing partners and others working to increase equitable access to, and improve the quality of, education in crisis and conflict affected environments. USAID ECCN was initiated to promote knowledge generation and sharing among practitioners, policy makers and researchers related to Goal 3 of the USAID Education Strategy: improved equitable access to education in crisis and conflict affected environments.

CIE assisted by the Center for Educational Assessment at UMass Amherst was contracted to provide evaluation services for Valorisation de la Scolarisation de la Fille (VAS-Y Fille) project to increase girls’ access to education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Bjorn Nordtveit is the Prinicipal Investigator (PI), responsible for the qualitative analysis and Jennifer Randall is the CoPI, responsible for the quantitative analysis, of the project.

The Center for International Education (CIE) hosted a meeting in Montague House to jumpstart a new partnership between the College of Education, the Universities of Herat, Balkh and Nangahar in Afghanistan, and faculty from Greenfield and Holyoke Community Colleges.

The Center for International Education is part of a team working with community college administrators from Pakistan to help them develop a better understanding of community colleges in the US and apply that knowledge to their own institutions in Pakistan.

CIE faculty traveled to Baku, Azerbaijan to offer a workshop for faculty and administrators involved in the Master's degree in Education Leadership and Management (MELM) started by UMass as part of the University Support and Workforce Development Project in Afghanistan.